10 BIRDS OF THE LARUT HILLS. 
bably yet a number of species on the hills which neither of us 
met with and that our united lists are by по means peg eie 
Some more novelties are sure to be obtained in time on these 
mountains ; the small = inconspicuous species die are 
likely to repay attenti 
] am much ind atis PIE Mr. J. P. Rodger, British Resident, 
Selangor, for assistance "ped afforded me while he was acting as 
Resident of Perak. п giving me permission to collect for 
scientific purposes Mr. Rodger requested me to restrict myself 
four specimens of a species. It will be seen that on the 
whole I contented myself with considerably less, 
I have also to thank Mr. L. Wray, Jr. for much informa- 
tion about the birds of the hills, and for the kindness with which 
he was always ready to go over his own ne with me 
when I was in Tai 
I hope shortly to шы elsewhere a more complete paper 
on the birds at present known to occur on the mountains of the 
Peninsula; in the mean time, I give a list of the species I met 
with during my two months on Maxwell’s Hill. The brief notes 
as to elevation, etc., after each species must not be taken as 
hard and fast rules, but only as my individual experience of the 
bird's habitat, given for comparison with the notes of other 
observers. In this list I have arranged the жача according to 
the classification in Messrs. Oates’ and Blanford’s ** Bird” vol- 
umes in the Fauna of India Series, serdar those species not in 
the Indian list.in what seemed to me their proper places, I 
Sub-families in large print between each few ре as in most 
cases it seems to me unnecessary waste of s 
The identifications in this list are, I liso, absolutely 
reliable. A numeral in brackets following the note on a species 
denotes the number of specimens I obtained. In alls = = 
such a number follows, the birds have been worked out by n 
less an authority than Dr. Ernst Hartert, of «bu: Mamas 
liar, and Lam confident of the correctness of the s given 
In some cases where species have ben split up into: зана 
